{"id":122648,"date":"2020-12-29T18:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/12\/level-5_boss_teases_2021_announcement_says_he_loves_cyberpunk_2077"},"modified":"2020-12-29T18:15:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-29T18:15:00","slug":"level-5-boss-teases-2021-announcement-says-he-loves-cyberpunk-2077","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/level-5-boss-teases-2021-announcement-says-he-loves-cyberpunk-2077\/","title":{"rendered":"Level-5 Boss Teases 2021 Announcement, Says He Loves Cyberpunk 2077"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Forgive us this moment of subjective praise in a news story, but Level-5 really is one of the best studios out there. They brought us our beloved, behatted mystery-solver, Professor Layton<\/strong><\/a>, as well as the underrated gem that is Fantasy Life<\/strong><\/a>, and somehow they also managed to develop Ni No Kuni<\/a>, Yo-Kai Watch<\/a>,<\/strong> and the Inazuma Eleven<\/a><\/strong> series all in the span of their 22-year career. That’s a lot of great games for one studio!<\/p>\n

However, the Japanese studio began to scale back its American offices back in 2019, and shut them down completely in 2020, with a source confirming that this meant “no future plans” for Level-5’s games coming to the West<\/a> any time soon. The last Level-5 game to make it over was the 2018 title Snack World: The Dungeon Crawl<\/a>,<\/strong> which came to the West earlier this year, and a localised Yo-Kai Watch 4<\/a><\/strong> has been announced for Switch<\/a>, but no release date has been given.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Japanese gaming site, 4Gamer<\/a>, Level-5 president Akihiro Hino spoke of the company’s plans for 2021. In a translation provided by The Gamer<\/a>, Hino says that Level-5 is “preparing an unreleased new work,\u201d as well as speaking about his positive experience with CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077<\/strong>. He’s spent 60 hours with CD Projekt’s game so far and hasn’t fallen foul of any serious bugs, but he acknowledges that hasn’t been the case for everyone.<\/p>\n

However, they’re not ready to say any more about the new game. “I can’t talk about the details yet,” Hino says, “but we are steadily proceeding, so please look forward to it.”<\/p>\n

Since it’s unlikely that the new game – whatever it is – is going to be localised into English, we might as well use that headstart to start learning Japanese. Can’t be that hard, right?<\/p>\n

What would you like to see next from Level-5? Drop your favourite title in the comments, or tell us what new concept you think Level-5 might try next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Level-5 Forgive us this moment of subjective praise in a news story, but Level-5 really is one of the best studios out there. They brought us our beloved, behatted mystery-solver, Professor Layton, as well as the underrated gem that is Fantasy Life, and somehow they also managed to develop Ni No Kuni, Yo-Kai Watch, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}